puhr sə nə bəl adjective pleasing in manner or appearance; friendly; attractive. She found her boyfriend’s father quite personable, but his mother seemed somewhat cold and humorless.
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cross-grained
kraws greInd adjective 1. of lumber, having a grain that runs across or diagonally to the length. 2. (informal) stubborn or hard to deal with. He was a cross-grained man, oppressed by…
swath
swath noun 1. the width or path cut by one pass of a scythe, mower, or the like. 2. grass, grain, or the like cut and deposited along a line. 3. a…
auteur
o tuhr noun a director whose films display a distinctive personal style. Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson can all be regarded as auteurs.
omniscient
am nI shənt adjective 1. infinite in knowledge; all-knowing. They believe in an omniscient god. 2. possessing great knowledge; seeming to know everything. Their father seemed omniscient when they were children.